My House in Umbria by William Trevor

My House in Umbria by William Trevor

An unlikely group of survivors confront their past traumas to find connection and community in the Italian countryside

Mrs. Emily Delahunty--a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam--quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors--an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy--and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written many novels, and has won many prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel Love and Summer was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a renowned writer of short stories, and his two-volume Collected Stories was published by Viking Penguin in 2009. In 1999 William Trevor received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.

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ISBN 13	9780142003657
ISBN 10	0142003654
Title	My House in Umbria
Author	William Trevor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2003-03-15
Number of pages	160
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